Camping at Porcupine

Reese, Mason, and I went camping up to Porcupine Dam this last Friday. We had a grand ole time. While I set up camp, Reese found wood for our fire with Mason's help of course. Once all the bedding was in the tent, Mason had to test it out. Here he is with Reese in the tent checking the bounciness of our mattresses. You can barely see Mason's little hand flinging through the air in the tent.

In case you weren't sure, Reese is amazing. He was able to get a fire going with one match and wood that refused to burn. With the warm fire now burning, we started to cook ourselves some delicious hot dogs. Mason was so excited to eat his that he wouldn't even take it off the roasting stick to eat it.

For desert, of course we had smores. We like to try smores differently every time we go. This time instead of just chocolate, we put Rolos in the marshmallows as we cooked them. Yum! We also had Barq's Red Cream Soda! My personal favorite...and apparently Mason's too.

This picture was taken BEFORE Mason got really messy from drinking the red cream soda.

It was a somewhat sleepless night. Mason was in between Reese and I because I was scared that he would get too cold over on his own mattress. Oh how wrong I was. He kept kicking off all the blankets because he was hot, which left Reese and I without blankets and freezing.

Not only did we not get near 8 hours of recommended sleep but we were woken up by Mason a little before 6 a.m. He seems to wake up with the sun. So we made breakfast and went for a hike. Here are Reese and Mason climbing up a crevice.

We made it to the top and into the cave. It was a little difficult to get all 3-1/2 of us up there but it was worth the view of the lake and our campsite.

Mason and I enjoying the view. He is pointing out where our car and camp are.

The cave from down below.

Here is the waterfall we were camped next to. It was three times as pretty in person but I hope you enjoy what I was able to capture with our camera.